Government Policy

On January 17, 2025, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the National Energy Administration issued the Announcement on the Release of 2023 Electricity Carbon Footprint Factor Data, which states that, in order to implement the relevant requirements of the Implementation Plan on Establishing a Carbon Footprint Management System, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the National Energy Administration have organized the China Electricity Council and other units to calculate the 2023 coal-fired power generation, Gas-fired power generation, hydroelectric power generation, nuclear power generation, wind power generation, photovoltaic power generation, photovoltaic power generation, photovoltaic power generation, biomass power generation carbon footprint factor and transmission and distribution carbon footprint factor, as well as the national average carbon footprint factor of electric power for the use of products of various industries to account for the carbon footprint generated by the production and consumption of electric power.

January 14, Shanghai Regional High-quality Development Leading Group Office issued the "Shanghai in-depth implementation of people-oriented new urbanization strategy five-year action plan for the implementation of the program" task division of labor program ", which puts forward, the full implementation of the building "photovoltaic +" application, complete the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings more than 40 million square meters, the new state organs of office buildings, large public buildings in accordance with the three-star green building standard construction. New state organs office buildings, large public buildings in accordance with the full green building three-star standard construction.

January 7, Suzhou Industrial Park issued "Suzhou Industrial Park Industrial Enterprises Green Low Carbon Development 2025 Action Plan". It points out that by 2025, the energy consumption and carbon emissions per unit of industrial added value above scale will complete the "14th Five-Year Plan" reduction target and maintain the domestic advanced level, the distributed photovoltaic grid-connected capacity will be over 480 megawatts, the total number of honorary enterprises of green manufacturing above municipal level will be over 150, and a number of near-zero carbon industrial parks and near-zero carbon factory demonstrations will be built. factory demonstrations, and form a number of ESG practical experiences.

On January 10, the National Energy Administration (NEA) issued a notice on the issuance of the "Key Points of Energy Regulatory Work in 2025".

On January 8, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) issued a circular on 2025 to increase and expand the implementation of large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in policies.

On December 25, Gansu Provincial Department of Natural Resources Gansu Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau Gansu Provincial Energy Bureau issued a notice on further regulating the land use management of photovoltaic power generation projects. The notice points out that it strictly implements the requirements of "three zones and three lines" of land space planning, optimizes the spatial distribution of large-scale photovoltaic bases and photovoltaic power generation projects, and reasonably arranges the scale of new land use for photovoltaic power generation projects, layout and development sequence. The new construction and expansion of PV power generation projects shall not occupy permanent basic farmland, basic grassland (before the latest optimization and adjustment results of the basic grassland in the province are announced, it will be determined in accordance with the current management scope), and Class I protected forest land.

December 17, Shandong Provincial People's Government issued "on the sound improvement of new energy consumption system mechanism to promote high-quality development of energy a number of measures" notice, requiring 2025-2026 new centralized, distributed PV projects independently choose to participate in the electricity market for the full amount of electricity or 15% power generation.

On December 16, the National Energy Administration 2025 Regulatory Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting was guided by Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, comprehensively implemented the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the 2nd and 3rd Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, conscientiously implemented the requirements of the National Development and Reform Work Conference and the National Energy Work Conference, summarized the achievements of the energy regulation in 2024, analyzed the current situation, and deployed the work in 2025. Wang Hongzhi, secretary of the party group and director of the National Energy Administration, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

December 18, the National Energy Board Southern Supervisory Board issued the "southern region" two rules "main revised provisions" of the notice, in order to better serve the construction of a new type of power system, recently, the Southern Energy Board in conjunction with the Yunnan, Guizhou Energy Supervision Office to comprehensively summarize the implementation of the rules for the southern region of grid-connected power operation and auxiliary services assessment and compensation. Recently, the Southern Energy Regulatory Authority, together with Yunnan and Guizhou Energy Regulatory Offices, comprehensively summarized the effectiveness of the implementation of the rules on power grid-connected operation and auxiliary service assessment and compensation in the southern region, improved the relevant working mechanism, and revised and issued a new version of the "two rules.

On December 12, 2024, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Management issued the Beijing 2025 Electricity Market-based Trading Program and the Beijing 2025 Green Power Trading Program (hereinafter referred to as the Electricity Market-based Trading Program and the Green Power Trading Program).